Dewdrops On A Lotus Leaf

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Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 0834826089
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dewdrops on a Lotus Leaf written by and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2004-04-13 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Japanese poet-recluse Ryokan (1758–1831) is one of the most beloved figures of Asian literature, renowned for his beautiful verse, exquisite calligraphy, and eccentric character. Deceptively simple, Ryokan's poems transcend artifice, presenting spontaneous expressions of pure Zen spirit. Like his contemporary Thoreau, Ryokan celebrates nature and the natural life, but his poems touch the whole range of human experience: joy and sadness, pleasure and pain, enlightenment and illusion, love and loneliness. This collection of translations reflects the full spectrum of Ryokan's spiritual and poetic vision, including Japanese haiku, longer folk songs, and Chinese-style verse. Fifteen ink paintings by Koshi no Sengai (1895–1958) complement these translations and beautifully depict the spirit of this famous poet.

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Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 1590301080
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dewdrops on a Lotus Leaf written by and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2004-04-13 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Japanese poet-recluse Ryokan (1758–1831) is one of the most beloved figures of Asian literature, renowned for his beautiful verse, exquisite calligraphy, and eccentric character. Deceptively simple, Ryokan's poems transcend artifice, presenting spontaneous expressions of pure Zen spirit. Like his contemporary Thoreau, Ryokan celebrates nature and the natural life, but his poems touch the whole range of human experience: joy and sadness, pleasure and pain, enlightenment and illusion, love and loneliness. This collection of translations reflects the full spectrum of Ryokan's spiritual and poetic vision, including Japanese haiku, longer folk songs, and Chinese-style verse. Fifteen ink paintings by Koshi no Sengai (1895–1958) complement these translations and beautifully depict the spirit of this famous poet.

Author : Robin D. Gill
Publisher : Paraverse Press
ISBN 13 : 0984092307
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kyoka, Japan's Comic Verse written by Robin D. Gill and published by Paraverse Press. This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even readers with no particular interest in Japan - if such odd souls exist - may expect unexpected pleasure from this book if English metaphysical poetry, grooks, hyperlogical nonsense verse, outrageous epigrams, the (im)possibilities and process of translation between exotic tongues, the reason of puns and rhyme, outlandish metaphor, extreme hyperbole and whatnot tickle their fancy. Read together with The Woman Without a Hole, also by Robin D. Gill, the hitherto overlooked ulterior side of art poetry in Japan may now be thoroughly explored by monolinguals, though bilinguals and students of Japanese will be happy to know all the original Japanese is included. This Reader is a selection from "Mad in Translation - a thousand years of kyoka, comic Japanese poetry in the classic waka mode," a 2000-poem, 200-chapter, 740-page monster of a book. It offers a 300-page double distillation high-proof sample of the poetry and prose, with improved translations, re-considered opinions and additional snake-legs (explanation some scholars may not need). The scattershot of two-page chapters and notes have been compounded into a score of cannonball-sized thematic chapters with just enough weight to bowl over most specialists yet, hopefully, not bore the amateur and sink a potentially broad-beamed readership. (More information may be found at the Paraverse Press website or Google Books)"

Author : John Stevens
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 0834824965
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One Robe, One Bowl written by John Stevens and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2006-04-11 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hermit-monk Ryokan, long beloved in Japan both for his poetry and for his character, belongs in the tradition of the great Zen eccentrics of China and Japan. His reclusive life and celebration of nature and the natural life also bring to mind his younger American contemporary, Thoreau. Ryokan's poetry is that of the mature Zen master, its deceptive simplicity revealing an art that surpasses artifice. Although Ryokan was born in eighteenth-century Japan, his extraordinary poems, capturing in a few luminous phrases both the beauty and the pathos of human life, reach far beyond time and place to touch the springs of humanity.

Author : 良寛
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231044158
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ryokan written by 良寛 and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Watson includes the representative works of this Tokugawa poet's waka and kanshi works, along with an introduction and the original Japanese poems in romanized form.

Author : Sri Ram
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788120719651
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dewdrop on a Lotus Leaf written by Sri Ram and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rakesh K. Mittal
Publisher : Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9788120727304
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Think Positive and Things Will Go Right written by Rakesh K. Mittal and published by Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Rakesh Mittal has narrated his personal experiences, describing them in an interesting manner. His narration imparts valuable information and wisdom, and underlines his conviction that when we think positive, things go right.

Author : Kazuaki Tanahashi
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 0834828162
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sky Above, Great Wind written by Kazuaki Tanahashi and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2012-10-09 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The delightful and often funny poetry of Zen’s quintessential free spirit, Master Ryokan—in a fresh translation by a beloved American Zen figure Ryokan Taigu (1758-1831) was a monk in the Soto lineage of Japanese Zen who spent a good part of his life as a hermit, writing poetry, playing with children, and creating simple and exquisitely beautiful calligraphies—sometimes using twigs as his instrument when he couldn't afford a brush. He was never head of a monastery or temple and as an old man, he fell in love with a young Zen nun who also became his student. His affection for her colors the mature poems of his late period. This loving tribute to the great legendary nonconformist includes more than 140 of his poems, 13 examples of his art, and a selection of laugh-out-loud funny anecdotes about his highly idiosyncratic teaching behavior.

Author : Jakob Fischer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dew-drops on a Lotus Leaf written by Jakob Fischer and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dōgen
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0865471851
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moon in a Dewdrop written by Dōgen and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1985 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: